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I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

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In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

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I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

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We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

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I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

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We don't know where print is going.

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It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in.

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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

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Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud.

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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

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I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

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And we forget because we must and not because we will.

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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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